January 2006 Archives

   Well, I was on eBay looking at some chips for my PC. The particular chips that I was looking at were for some 1.4GHz 'Tualatin' Celerons. One notable auction was selling 2 of the chips. Strangely, upon looking at the auction's page, I noticed that one recurring image did not feature any Celerons in it at all.
   In fact, I would say that she does in no way have any processors on her, at all. Take a look at the image and take notice of the page's title. I think someone was angry about someone linking to their image, perhaps?

'Liquid' Cooled PC
   You may be saying, "Liquid cooled computers aren't anything new." This is the first time I've heard of this being done. Ha ha ha.

   In relation to the previous article on the Newton, I also did a slight 'cosmetic' modification to my Mustang as well. A simple mod at that. I merely painted the Mustang logo on the steering wheel with a nice blue (to match the car's color) paint. Nothing too special, but something.

   Ah, my beautiful Newton Messagepad 2100. The mightiest of the late Newtons. I do not know if I've already blogged about it, but I received it not that long ago. Its case was scratched up and the screen had a barely tolerable scuff mark on it. Despite these cosmetic flaws, I was more than glad to welcome it to my family of computers and other electronic things.
   Of course, before I began to use it to fill in the boring spans of time sitting around on campus, I needed to do something about that case. Looking online only yielded one such case transormation of a Newton. The Great White Newton was an extremely well done mod (the 'iNewt' thing just seems too much, though).
   I was just looking for inspiration, though. That is when I decided to go for a nice 'stealthy' but professional-looking coat of black. Black spraypaint was cheap and I already had a type of clear coat to protect the spraypaint once it was on there.
   While I initially sprayed the back of the Newton days before the front, the work in total didn't take very much time at all. The only problem I ran into was the case not wanting to go back together properly. That problem was easily sovled though.
   I doubt if I will ever replace the screen. The cost of a replacement screen is more than what I payed to get the Newton itself. It just doesn't seem worth it. Nevertheless, with the recent addition of a hard carrying case and a wireless card, my Newton is more than ready to tackle my scheduling and let me do a little surfin' on the side.